THE KANSAN
The official paper of the University of Kansas.
Published every Wednesday and Saturday night of the school year, by the Kansas University Publishing Association.
Office in Basement of Fraser Hall,
Phone, Bell, K U 25.
H. C, WATERS, Editor.
Claud A. Clay, Managing Editor.
Clinton Kanagra, Business Manager.
Ralph Harman, Ass't. Bus, Mgr.
Ralph G. Cole, Circulation Manager.
Members of the Board:
Ward H, Coble. Judith Connelly
May V. Wallace. Ray Loofbourrow
Paul Harvey. Henry F. Draper
Joseph Murray. Ernest C. McBride
Roger W. Peard
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Entered as second class mail matter September 30, 1904, at the Lawrence, Kansas, Postoffice under the act of Congress, March 3, 1879.
WEDNEDAY, APRIL 1. 1908.
THE TRUTH ABOUT STUDENT INITIATIVE
Newspapers over the state, always thirsty for a morsel of sensationalism have colored and distorted the facts in regard to the purpose of the meeting of the students held Monday night. In the columns of lurid journals they have been depicted as a bunch of red handed anarchists. In truth the meeting had nothing of the revolutionary nature in it. Those who attended had no intention of hiring a new faculty or of asking the board of regents for its resignation. It was a crowd of representative students who assembled peacefully to try to formulate some kind of plans for the establishment of student initiative in affairs that concern only the undergraduate body. It is not some novelty that is to be tried in the University of Kansas. It is established in all the surrounding universities. It is the intention to ask the faculty to give to the undergraduate student body only as much power as they will freely surrender, but the students are not going to arm themselves with the weapons of force and demand anything.
And again it has been stated in the press that the meeting was brought about by the expulsion of two students, which of course is a fabrication, pure and simple. At the meeting nothing was said of the suspension affair. The meeting was the result of a long agitation for something of the kind at the University which has met with encouragement from the faculty.
EDITORIAL COMMENT.
The plan that several University Professors had last fall to build a dormitory seems to have been about as vague a dream as Kansas City's eternal chase after a union depot.
The organization of a substation of the Lawrence postoffice at the University will be of inestimable value to the student body. If the students will only give it their patronage it will be only a matter of time
until the government will see fit to establish a free delivery office in the University.
It has been suggested that the Committee of Ten import a student from one of the Russian universities to preside over the meetings of our First Douma.
The temperance wave has struck the University of Nebraska. At a mass meeting held Friday the students denounced the open saloons and marched down the streets of the business section of the city to show their sentiment. It would be a good thing to close the saloons but if the illegal traffic was carried on as the
All Fools' Day
Strange, isn't it?—how folks on one day in the year try to make fools of each other, when nature has been so lavish with the Human Race in this respect that she knows no particular day in preference to ane other. But many people voluntarily act foolish all the year around in the matter of
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officers in Lawrence permit it to be, it is far better that the saloons run wide open.
This is All Fool's Day. Did you kick the brick in the hat?
Freshmen Debaters Chosen.
Louis LaCoss, E. L. Overman, and W. M. Eastman won places on the freshmen debating team in the tryout last Monday evening. These men will take the negative against the sophomores on the question, "Resolved, that the Free Elective System is the best for Undergraduate Work." The debate will be held May 1, and will take the place of the May Day scrap of former years. The judges for the tryout were Dr. M. E. Nethercut, Professor C. H. Gray and H. C. McCandles.
A Fire Scare.
A window curtian in the room of Miss Pearl Stuckey and Miss Kate Hart at 1340 Tennessee caught fire last evening by blowing into a gas light. The fire did little damage and was put out before the arrival of the fire wagon and a squad of would-be heroes.
Bushong Spoke in Chapel.
Prof. F. W. Bushong spoke in chapel Tuesday morning on "The Water Supplies of the State." He outlined the work that the National and State governments are doing to ascertain the quality of the water in the rivers over the state.
Prison Warden to Speak.
on
Special Sale
Major Robt. H. McClaughry, warden of the Federal Prison at Leavenworth, will speak to. the Sociology class Friday afternoon about the administrative and corrective measures used in the large prisons of this country.
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